简介：Ex-soldierandauthorPatrickHennesseyfollowsthefootstepsoftheyoungRudyardKipling,fromLahoretothehillstationofSimla. WhenKiplingboardedashiptoIndiain1882hewas16yearsold,oneofthousandsofyoungBritishmenandwomensailingtowardastrangenewworldthatwouldmakeorbreakthem.Kiplingbecamethechroniclerforthisgeneration-satirisingtheirfoibles,celebratingtheirfortitudeandusingfictiontomakesenseofthecomplexmoralcodesthatboundtherulersandtheruled,officersandsubalternsandthemenandwomenwhocametoIndiaseekingloveaswellasfortune.BythetimehereturnedtoEnglandsevenyearslater,hewaslionisedasoneofthemostfamousandcelebratedwritersinthelanguage. ByfollowingKipling’spath,HennesseywilltelltheextraordinarystoryofhowIndiachangedKiplingandhowheindeliblychangedourimageofIndiawithhisfirstpublishedbook,PlainTalesFromTheHills-acollectionofsomeofthemostoriginalshortstorieseverwritten.…